Works Cited on Labor

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Alcantara, Ruben. 1981. Sakada: Filipino Adaptation in Hawai‘i. Washington, DC: University Press of America.

Azuma, Eiichiro. 2005. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bao, Xiang. 2007. Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Bao, Xiaolan. 2001. Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Beechert, Edward D. 1985. Working in Hawai‘i: A Labor History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Beechert, Edward D. 1985. Working in Hawai‘i: A Labor History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Blendstrup, Angelika. 2007. They Made It! How Chinese, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Israeli, and Other Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Contributed to High-Tech Innovation in Silicon Valley, the United States, and Overseas. Cupertino, CA: HappyAbout.com.

Bush, Michael L. 2000. Servitude in Modern Times. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Castleman, Bruce A. 1994. “California’s Alien Land Laws.” Western Legal History 9 (Winter/Spring): 25-68.

Cha, Marn J. 2010. Koreans in Central California (1903-1957): A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Chan, Sucheng. (1986) 1989. This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chan, Sucheng. 2014. “Alien Land Laws.” In Encyclopedia of Asian American History, edited by Xiaojian Zhao and Edward J. W. Park. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.

Chan, Sucheng. Forthcoming. “Asian American Economic and Labor History.” In The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, edited by David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma. New York: Oxford University Press.

Chang, Shenglin. 2006. The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Char, Tin-Yuke. 1975. The Sandalwood Mountains: Readings and Stories of the Early Chinese in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University Press of Hawai‘i.

Chiang, Connie Y. 2008. Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Chin, Margaret M. 2005. Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York Garment Industry. New York: Columbia University Press.

Chiswick, Barry R., ed. 2011. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

Chiu, Ping. 1967. Chinese Labor in California, 1850-1880: An Economic Study. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Chuman, Frank. 1976. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese Americans. Del Mar, CA: Publisher’s Inc.

Chung, Sue Fawn. 2011. In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Cohen, Lucy M. 1984. Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People without a History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Cooper, Frederick, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca Scott, eds. 2000. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

DeWitt, Howard. 1978. “The Filipino Labor Union: The Salinas Lettuce Strike of 1934.” Amerasia Journal 5 (2): 1-21.

DeWitt, Howard. 1980. Violence in the Fields: California Farm Labor Unionization during the Great Depression. Saratoga, CA: Century Twenty One.

Duus, Masayo Umezawa. 1999. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dye, Bob. 1997. Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Foner, Eric. (1970) 1995. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press.

Friday, Chris. 1994. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned Salmon Industry, 1870-1942. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Fujikane, Candace, and Jonathan Y. Okamura, eds. 2008. Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Glick, Clarence E. 1980. Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University Press of Hawai‘i.

Glickstein, Jonathan.

  1. Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Guterl, Matthew Pratt. 2003. “After Slavery: Asian Labor, the American South, and the Age of Emancipation.” Journal of World History 14 (June): 209-42.

Harvey, William S. 2008. “Brain Circulation? British and Indian Scientists in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.” Asian Population Studies 4 (3): 294-309.

Hoefte, Rosemarijn. 1998. In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Ichihashi, Yamato. (1932) 1969. Japanese in the United States: A Critical Study of the Problems of the Japanese Immigrants and Their Children. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Ichioka, Yuji. 1988. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants in the United States, 1885-1924. New York: Free Press.

Iwata, Masakazu. 1992. Planted in Good Soil: A History of the Issei in United States Agriculture. New York: Peter Lang.

Jordan, Don, and Michael Walsh. 2007. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America. New York: New York University Press.

Jung, John. 2007. Chinese Laundries: Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain. Cypress, CA: Yin and Yang Press.

Jung, Moon-Ho. 2006. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Jung, Moon-Ho. 2006. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Kerkvliet, Melina Tria. 2002. Unbending Cane: Pablo Manlapit, a Filipino Labor Leader in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Office of Multicultural Student Services.

Kolchin, Peter. 1987. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Cambridge, MA: Belnap Press.

Kwong, Peter. 1979. Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Leonard, Karen I. 1992. Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Light, Ivan, and Edna Bonacich. 1988. Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ling, Huping. 2011. Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1996. American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. New York: W. W. Norton.

Liu, Haiming. 2005. The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Loewen, James W. (1971) 1988. The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon. 2001. Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Lydon, Sandy. 1985. Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region. Santa Cruz, CA: Capitola.

Mathew, Biju. 2005. Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City. New York: New Press.

Matsumoto, Valerie J. 1993. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Min, Pyong Gap. 1996. Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Min, Pyong Gap. 2008. Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival: Korean Greengrocers in New York City. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Ngai, Mae. 2010. The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Northrup, David. 1995. Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Okihiro, Gary Y. 1991. Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawai‘i, 1865-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Park, Kyeyoung. 1997. The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Reinecke, John E. 1996. The Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike of 1924-1925. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Social Research Institute.

Saunders, Kay. 1982. Workers in Bondage: The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland, 1824-1916. St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press.

Saxenian, AnnaLee. 1990. Silicon Valley’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.

Siu, Paul C. P. (1953) 1987. The Chinese Laundryman: A Study in Social Isolation. Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York: New York University Press.

Steinfeld, Robert J. 1991. The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Steinfeld, Robert J. 2001. Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Takaki, Ronald. 1983. Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawai‘i, 1835-1920. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Takaki, Ronald. 1983. Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawai‘i, 1835-1920. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Varma, Roli. 2006. Harbingers of Global Change: India’s Techno-Immigrants in the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Wong, Bernard P. 1987. Patronage, Brokerage, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese Community of New York. New York: AMS Press.

Wong, Marie Rose. 2004. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Wong, Marie Rose. 2004. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Yoon, Injin. 1997. On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Yu, Renqiu. 1992. To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.